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Thanks for your fantastic response!..and being the first to comment too!

A real genius...!!!!

Apparently those songs were all Genesis rejects! I dare say better than most bands best work. If Phil's marriage had not hit the buffers those tracks may never have seen the light of the day. To this day Mike shows no interest in reissuing or even discussing that album.

Lol true

There’s a guy in Panic At The Disco whom is Jimmy Osmond 😁❤️

Oh yes, absolutely! LOL

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@@XanAxDdu AH 1946, AP 1951

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@@JOHNEDGINTONDOCUMENTARIES I've watched all of your Genesis documentaries you've recently uploaded, thank you so much - they are the best interviews with the band I've seen, and I've seen them all. Thanks again.

@@drwugong so nice to hear that ! Thanks so much!

Reverence may be too strong a word but maybe not. I think they ALL admit he was most musically talented at the time-and maybe even remained so. I wonder if he may have even inspired Tony a bit becaues its interesting that Anthony-Tony, if you will, was a guitar player who played keyboards as well, while Tony was a keyboard player who also played guitar. I would love to have heard more details on what the arguments sounded like. On the Trespass album he says that by the time they recorded "there were no more arguments, we had so many arguments, there was nothing left to argue about". For some reason I can't even picture him arguing, but then I can't really picture Peter arguing either. Tony I can picture arguing:) THere's a picture floating around of him and Tony at that time which is pretty funny because they talk about how energetic he was as 'lead guitarist', but in the photo of him and Tony, he looks to be about 12, and Tony looks like he's about 30. And yet Tony talks about thinking of him as a 'leader'. So you can only imagine what the band would have sounded like had he stayed. In a way I may have liked it because if he was that much of a leader then maybe there would be a bit more guitar. I love Tony's keys, but there are tracks you listen to where he's doing nothing on a keys but repetition and yet you can hardly hear the guitar at all. It does come out as early dubstep though, so they were innovative in that way too. Nothing on Steve, but he just never had the confidence to really get his guitar in there, and in a band its nice to hear all ofit, thats what makes Dark Side so great musically. But up to Wind and Wuthering every one of their albums sounds so different, and I know my tastes aren't off when Anthony talks about how much he would have loved being part of Selling England by the Pound but was really not interested in any of the eightiest stuff. Just like me.

@@mikearchibald744 YOU used the term ‘verbal diarrhea’?

@@Zerpersande Yes, it was a great comment.

@@mikearchibald744 It was an 'on the spectrum' comment

private parts and pieces 1 for me astonishing awesome some tracks are impressive homemade masterpieces

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The entire Geese and Ghost album has a profound effect on dreams should you listen to it while sleeping. Anthony is definitely a guitar bard and he tells beautiful stories with a single guitar!

@@breakfastplan4518 There's something about that guitar style like on musical box that messes with my brain, maybe its the tinnitus, but its like listening to Troutmask Replica to me, but its too bad because I want to listen to his music just from listening to him talk. There is a podcast that a guy from Nova Scotia did where he just calls him up, I'd like to make up a show just to listen to him. He'd be very good at talking people down from bridges. "Look here chap, we really don't have the people to clean up your mess, how about we go for a pint and you tell me your troubles".

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Damm no groupies for Genesis??? guess it wasn't rocknroll ehj

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@@JOHNEDGINTONDOCUMENTARIES Can’t wait.

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Back then he was just another subdued folkie on the circuit. Dying mysteriously followed by decades of hype does wonders for your legend status.

THAT guy.

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Yes the unfiltered versions are certainly going down well here! Thanks for appreciating my stuff!

I’m delighted you got so much from it !

Glad you enjoyed it!

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Yes indeed. A lovely guy.

@@JOHNEDGINTONDOCUMENTARIES really enjoying your interview footage on here. Thanks. Very insightful and great to hear these experienced artists reflect on their own development over many years. I come away from it reflecting on the old adage about % inspiration vs % perspiration and marvel at how much sheer hard effort is involved much of the time or at least the high levels of resilience required.

@@Ukedc259 I totally agree with you - hard work and resilience is true of all of them. Plus not letting the negative voices from critics, disgruntled fans etc set you back.

Wouldn't it be charming too if he'd do some music in collaboration with another comparable sweet soul - I mean Roger Hodgson?

Thanks so much! Really appreciate your comments!

I always want to ask him if he ever felt the hankering to try working within a band again, even as a songwriter.

Agree but I can't listen to the closing track it is way too depressing..

My brother listened to later Genesis, but when I found Trespass it was like listening to a whole new band, which a lot of their albums were like. But The Knife really hit me: Stand up and fight, for you know we are right We must strike at the lies That have spread like disease through our minds Soon we'll have power, every soldier will rest And we'll spread out our kindness To all who our love now deserve Some of you are going to die Martyrs of course to the freedom that I shall provide Those are some pretty heady lyrics. But I've noticed that really good songwriters have pretty good use of language and vocabulary-even when young.

@@mikearchibald744 The lyrics are still so relevant when you think that they spoof leadership, underscored by projection -- Trump accusing all and sundry of lying and Johnson's approach to the pandemic allowing too many people to die.

@@ambadad Probably ALL leadership, here in Canada as well. But absolutely, they struck me as true almost forty years after they were written. I remember reading the lyrics to teh Sex Pistols album and thinking those were some pretty heady lyrics for what is basically a kid. Some bands like Deep Purple were BUYING songs from people like Neil Diamond. And you look at some of what passes for lyrics in a lot of bands and its pretty sad. At the same time, you have to wonder about coming up with "the return of the giant hogweed". I reemmber Roger Waters sayign Genesis had its own Syd Barrett in Peter Gabriel, and I get what he means.

Trick of the Tale actually had that, but even then it was starting to sound 'updated', but in a way was a leap back to before the Lamb. But apart from Lamb peter didn't do all the lyric writing, its actually kind of fun to try to guess who 'added that bit'.

He worked with Mike on his first solo album, then later worked with Mike on Mikes first solo album Smallcreeps Day.

While that seems true keep in mind that Tony, Mike and Phil are constantly asked the 'selling out' questions, which can hardly be fun to answer and likely puts them on their guard. If you watch interviews in their heyday they seem pretty easy to get along with. As John said, Tony was quite reserved and not really excited about doing an interview at all, and its not like these guys had much interest since 1992. I think any of them would be perfectly pleasant to have a conversation with. I'm half deaf so I don't think I'd even understand half of what Mike or Tony would say.

But no groupies.

Ant, he looks 27 to me

Yes, the good thing is that Ant didn't stay in the band and seems happy to talk about the band even though has more albums than ALMOST anybody in Genesis. Pete has almost the fewest but I get the feeling his patience with talking about Genesis has a much shorter cut off point. Although I may be wrong in that.

But Phillips's stage fright was too much for him.

I wonder though had he stayed would we have had all those fabulous albums Ant has given us down the years? If memory serves I must have over 30 AP albums

@@musicman920 Agree, some much talent, ….. you 💭 wonder!!!!!

Probably because he doesn't have all the history. He became more a solo artist so the 'band' history is probably more 'remote'. One thing that would be interesting to know is whether he had as much trouble as Steve getting his guitar into the mix. Since Tony thought of him as 'the leader' I'm thinking probably not.

@@mikearchibald744 An interesting point, because that's high praise coming from Tony. Maybe why he treated Steve with such a cold shoulder about so many things.

@@jeffsilverman6104 True. But Steve seems a shy quiet guy NOW, and back then he seemed to give wallflower a good name. Part of it I think is the usual stuff from keyboardists like Wakeman and Emerson, which is that they tended to not like guitarists who would crank their amps up so you could never be heard. He most definitely wanted to keep his keyboards up there, in many cases thats good, in some cases like earlier albums you could hardly hear peter even though the keys were only repeating a chord pattern. I've not often seen the cold shoulder, they ALL seem a little perplexed that he left. Tony says that he left just as he was getting the most stuff in. And I don't think I've ever heard a bad word about him from Tony, even though it couldn't be fun having a guitarist who was constantly making excuses because of his marital problems or because he was off making his own album. Tony did make that joke that he 'mixed him out of the live album' and then laughs, but then you noticed, 'hey, I DO hardly hear the guitar". So I think they did take it personally in as much as that upper middle class public schooling will allow.

@@mikearchibald744 All these years later it's still hard to know how to look at all of it. They are a complicated, highly creative group of people who literally constructed a complicated, creative bubble. It was Peter's performance art up against Tony's virtuosity and everything in between. I think Steve got caught in the middle of something, joining them at the outset of their immense creative peak. How intimidating that must have been. I don't think any of them knew where it was going, just enjoy the ride. But as reserved as they all can be in conversation, a single word or feeling can cut like a knife. You can feel their intensity. I pray for Phil's health now, he does not look good.

@@jeffsilverman6104 Amen. I have to admit I'm not listening to a lot of their music now but love the interviews, they are as interesting as the music. They are pretty lucid and erudite fellows compared to the mudslinging and monosyllabic breakups of american bands (or pink floyd). Its weird to watch the videos of six years ago of Phil and see him now. Clearly he was doing weights to try to deal with his back but I know when you bulk up with weights you can come down hard when you stop, so hopefully thats it and he'll improve. He certainly must at least have the money for pretty good physiotherapists, despite the many wives. I had the thought after listening to Phil's interview that Steve may not regret leaving genesis but may regret HOW he left genesis because he and phil were likely closest, and now phil says he never saw him much and seeing him takes him back to how he left so Steve kind of lost three guys that at least are friendly-ish. Again thats in the realm of upper middle class british guys so its not like they're having sauna's and snapping towels gleefully at one another. So its very nice that he's such good friends with Anthony now. They both seem like nice guys, its nice to have friends:)

Ant & Mike & Phil did carry on sporadically working together. Ant is the keyboardist on Smallcreep's Day (1980)

@@jeffsimon9594 Ant and Mike did collaborate once or twice throughout their careers, but that's not the same as a full early Genesis reunion. As for Phil, he wasn't even in the band at the time, so he barely knew Ant. He was invited for Ant's debut album and accepted mostly as a favour.

Possible, but Steve wasn't exactly a heavy metal player. The knife has great guitar work on it, but that was written by Peter. Ant was the guy who played hard stuff, and he liked 'prancing around' so I don't think its a given that it would be pastoral. Peter seems to be the guy who was always trying to get them heavier. And while Steve is a fantastic guitarist, his private life always seemed to leave him 'outside' the group. Its interesting that the fights seemed to have gotten worse AFTER Ant left, despite the two replacements not really doing any songwriting. Did Ant's leaving 'cause' all that?:) When TONY thinks of you as the group leader, thats really something. I actually didn't find Trespass THAT pastoral, and certainly not naive. Lyrically they are as heavy as stuff that came later, and instrumentally they were already going all over the map. "Fang, Son of Great Fang..." was a precursor to 'she's a lady' which of course begat '666'.

Now you mention it, Twilight Alehouse has an abrupt ending and Get 'Em Out By Friday has an abrupt start - maybe they would have originally segued into each other. Vinyl limitations being what they were, they were never going to get it on Foxtrot at the time unless they did a double.

@@Sphat90 yeah the chorus sounds a lot like 'Get Em Out by Friday' and the verses have a similar mood. I'm pretty sure that they are related. I would like to know.

It's not "Pontsy", it's "Poncey", meaning airy-fairy, self indulgent etc.

@@lemming9984 had to look it up. poncy- pretentious or affected Its a term you don't hear very often, not in north america No matter I love Anthony Philips poncy music as he describes it

@@genuinefreewilly5706 Me too, There's nothing wrong with a bit of ponce from time-to-time!!

The Geese and The Ghost by Ant, Olias Of Sunhillow by Jon Anderson, Smallceep’s Day by Mike Rutherford and Voyage Of The Acolyte by Steve Hackett are 4 of my Favorite Solo L/P’s-C/D’s ever. Shows where my Music Taste is incorporated in and The Main Band and Genre as well.

@@philseida5428 I had all those albums on vinyl in the day. Loved ;Private parts and pieces', Wise After the Event, the artwork was also killer with the giant squirrel and a VU meter in its ear I think :)

They are certainly likeable in interviews, apparantly less so to one another during writing sessions. But it looks like a different interview from the one thats on the album by album interviews. But type in Trespass interviews and they get into this. I remember it because he had such a poetic line "...I started well.....then came unstuck". Now who else but a brit would put it like that. But yeah, it was pretty much that.

why not Hello Oluf !